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GWR 3700 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Swindon Works· from 1903· class of 20 two-cylinder 4-4-0 locomotives
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GWR 3433 City of Bath (Howden, Boys' Book of Locomotives, 1907): Andy Dingley (scanner)· Public domain
- 2. GWR 3700 - GWR 3710: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Ans_05373-0660-FL· CC0
- 3. GWR 3700 - GWR 3710 (cropped): ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Ans_05373-0660-FL· CC0
what is it?
The Great Western Railway 3700 Class, or City Class, was a series of twenty 4-4-0 steam locomotives built for fast express passenger trains.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 123 years ago, in 1903.
- Top speed is 1.2× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 29 years (1902–1931).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1903
- in service from
- 1902
- retired
- 1931
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Swindon Works
- designer
- George Jackson Churchward
- operators
- Great Western Railway
- top speed
- 161 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- weight
- 55.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514950, Wikipedia: GWR 3700 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.